Monday, December 14, 2020

Advent day 16 (2020)

 


 

People of God: return!

You are called to be God’s own.

From the mountains announce the good news.

God comes in justice and peace,

to all who follow his ways.

You are God’s children.

Lord, make us one in the peace of Christ

today and for ever.

Amen.

 

People of God: return!

2020 has truly been a heavy-going year. All three of my teenaged children are struggling with living through a pandemic, and as a parent, I feel utterly helpless—and not a little frustrated. And in response to 2020, many people are looking forward to the time when things will return to normal. Except that they won’t return to how they were; and, in any case, ‘how things were’ was hard enough, for many. The call to return to God is not a longing to return to past times, or places, to how things were; but, rather, a yearning to follow his ways: to find ourselves caught-up in a community of sisters and brothers who are seeking to follow the God who is always on the move (though rarely in a hurry), always birthing a new thing.

 

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